Shoulda hated it...but you love it...

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What was the musicial act/show/album/single/reel-to-reel/8-track that you enjoyed immensely despite your tastes?
What I mean is: lets pretend you hate rap, opera, C&W and jazz. Now lets imagine you end up going to see a concert by MC Luciano Cowboy Bebop...and are completely blown away!
Okay, thats a fantasy...but do you have any amusing anecdotes of a real life incident like this?

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 11:50 (twenty-two years ago)

Timberlake. I fucking love it. Don't know why, don't care why. Like I love you was my fave record of last year. It fits somehwat incongruously with my other faves of last year (Autechre, Interpol, Mclusky, Bonnie Billy).

― neil, Tuesday, 8 April 2003 12:00 (twenty-two years ago)

It's not amusing, but I HATE Bis, and kind of guiltily enjoyed them live. I bought some stuff by them afterwards, but I don't listen to it, because, well, they're crap, aren't they?

Oh yeah, I also love the Timberlake album, especially Take It From Here, which has awful lyrics and should be excruciating. I listen to prince though, even bad Prince, so...

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 12:03 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm totally doing some shows as MC Luciano Cowboy Bebop.

I wish I didn't like System of a Down, as it's not a very "hip" group to like, but god dang I cannot deny that shit.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 12:10 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm totally doing some shows as MC Luciano Cowboy Bebop.
Lemme guess, yer opening for Jetspike and the Fayettes?

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 12:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh, wait! I have an example of my own:
Milla!
Every instinct screamed that she'd be a pretentious, talentless bore and her album with be a dreadful, vanity driven, ego-addled, hystrionic waste of landfill space...but no, shes actually not that bad. Not bad at all.
In fact, I've gotten to the point where I prefer her singing to her acting (and her acting to her modeling.)
Who woulda thunk it?

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 12:28 (twenty-two years ago)

I agree. The Divine Comedy was much better than it rightfully should have been.

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 12:31 (twenty-two years ago)

"Cry Me a River" by Justin Timberlake is a fucking brilliant, crystaline piece of melancholly pop perfection with a slight twinge of delicious menace. It PAINS me to admit it, but I must bow to its majesty.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 13:22 (twenty-two years ago)

One of these days something is gonna snap and Milla's just gonna have to stop being so absolutely fuckin perfect.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 16:39 (twenty-two years ago)

Milla smokes too much dope. And her album was ridiculous. I got to interview her when it came out.....and she's a whistlehead (but a dang sexy one, I'll give ya that!)

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 16:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Terri Clark, new country hat act. Didn't care a whole lot for her album, but her concert made me a believer.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 16:48 (twenty-two years ago)

I also ethusiastically second Terri Clark.
At that WXPN Anniversary concert a few years back (mentioned in an earlier thread), she was the *ONLY* good thing about that show. Its a shame that Shania gets all the money and attention when a more talented musician languishes in obscurity.
The most amazing thing is the uncharacteristic ferocity of her guitar-playing. And as you can see In the picture posted at Allmusic.com how she can play like that. Her right arm looks like it used to belong to a comic book superhero! She's all prim and proper, but her arm sez "C'mere, Hank Rollins! I wanna crush your skull with my massive POWER ARM!"

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 17:07 (twenty-two years ago)

I just wish she woulda used her POWER ARM on Steve Wariner.

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 17:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Fleming & John - "The Way We Are" .. Lounge-Pop. I should hate it, but I think it's great.

― dave225 (Dave225), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 17:10 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't think Terri's languishing in obscurity, Custos. She did just have a number one US hit. But she's still honky-tonk enough that a pop crossover ain't gonna happen.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 17:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Alex, you only make me love her more!!! DAMN YOU!!!

I've seen Fleming & John, they put on a fuckin' gnarly live show, WAAAAAY better than anything I would've expected.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 17:11 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't think Terri's languishing in obscurity, Custos.
Maybe. Maybe Not. But if this was a just and fair universe, she would be OUTSELLING and OVERSHADOWING Shania!
ILM should've been bitching about Terri Clark wearing a Richard Hell T-Shirt.
(Besides, she deserves a grammy for her live version of Zeppelin's "Rock and Roll")

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 17:15 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm really looking forward to her "Walkin' After Midnight" on the upcoming Patsy Cline tribute. She used her live band on it (vs. typical N'ville route of using session pros) and she told me "it has a really ballsy swing" or something like that. I was just so awed that in our 15 minute conversation she used the word ballsy self-referentially a couple of times, so now, I've subconsciously attached that word to everything she says.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 17:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Big Tymers

― SplendidMullet (iamamonkey), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 18:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Side issue:
TS: MC Luciano Cowboy Bebop vs Lonesome Cowboy Tetsuo and his Sagebrush Samurai?
The losing cowpoke will commit seppuku with a big-ass Bowie knife.

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 18:11 (twenty-two years ago)

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